The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2001.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

July 2001

1

• Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.^[1]
• Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).^[2]
• Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist.^[3]
• Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.^[4]
• Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.^[5]

2

• Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
• Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton).^[6]
• Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes.^[7]
• James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.

3

• Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure.^[8]
• Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart.^[9]
• Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.
• Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer.^[10]
• Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure.^[11]
• John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.^[12]
• Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band), heart attack.^[13]
• Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two), kidney cancer.^[14]
• Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally").^[15]
• Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone.^[16]
• Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.

4

• Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.^[17]
• Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995.
• Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player.
• Charles Neider, 86, American writer.^[18]
• Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.^[19]
• Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
• Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher.^[20]
• Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.^[21]

5

• Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker.^[22]
• George Dawson, 103, American author.^[23]
• A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure, Apocalypse Now), Oscar winner (1971, 1973), pneumonia.^[24]
• Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law"), liver cirrhosis.^[25]
• Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide.^[26]
• Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.

6

• Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.^[27]
• Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.^[28]
• Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player.^[29]

7

• Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
• Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
• Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician.
• Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'").^[30]
• Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator.^[31]
• Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian basketball player.^[32]
• John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.

8

• Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash.^[33]
• Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (gold medal winner in pairs and silver medal winner in men's singles at the 1936 Winter Olympics).^[34]
• Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer.^[35]
• Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion, heart attack.^[36]
• William Kuhlemeier, 92, American gymnast and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist in Los Angeles.^[37]
• Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist.^[38]
• Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
• Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer.
• John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You).^[39]
• Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.^[40]

9

• Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher.^[41]
• Al Lary, 72, American baseball player, drowned.^[42]
• Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.^[43]
• Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician.^[44]
• Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager.^[45]
• Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.^[46]

10

• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
• Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.^[47]
• Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
• Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 18 kilometre and men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).^[48]
• Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist.^[49]
• Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadorean politician, President (1982–1984).

11

• Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide.^[50]
• Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide.^[51]
• Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure.
• Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.
• Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.^[52]

12

• James Bernard, 75, English film composer (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula) and screenwriter (Seven Days to Noon), Oscar winner (1952).^[53]
• Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician.
• Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease.
• Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary.
• Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet.
• John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.^[54]
• Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.^[55]
• Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).^[56]
• Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer.^[57]
• Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician.
• Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister.^[58]
• Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist.^[59]

13

• Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease.
• Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician.
• César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player.
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.^[60]
• David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
• Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer.^[61]
• Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man).^[62]
• Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan cyclist.^[63]
• Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Morrocon novelist and poet, cancer.^[64]

14

• John Lax, 89, American ice hockey player.^[65]
• Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease.^[66]
• Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.

15

• Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.^[67]
• Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron).^[68]
• Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd).^[69]
• Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator.^[70]

16

• Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics) and a colonial administrator.^[71]
• Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds), heart attack.^[72]
• Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist.
• Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke), embolism.^[73]
• Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.^[74]

17

• Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident.
• Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar.
• Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguay classical guitar composer, performer and teacher.^[75]
• Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
• Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer.
• Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post), horse fall.^[76]
• Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.^[77]
• Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player.
• Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.

18

• Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.^[78]
• Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist.^[79]
• Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer.^[80]
• Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease.^[81]
• Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer (two-time bronze medal winner in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics).^[82]
• Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (men's 2000 metre tandem sprint cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).^[83]
• Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack.
• Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.^[84]
• Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.^[85]

19

• Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.^[86]
• Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer.^[87]
• Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.^[88]
• Gunther Gebel-Williams, 83, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), cancer.^[89]
• Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.^[90]
• Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist.^[91]
• Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower.^[92]

20

• Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist.
• Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter.^[93]
• Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.^[94]
• Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot.^[95]

21

• Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Islamic scholar, liver disease.
• Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes), suicide.^[96]
• Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic.^[97]
• Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian basketball player.^[98]
• Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
• Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.^[99]
• Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.^[100]

22

• Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914.^[101]
• Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter.^[102]
• Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer.^[103]
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (two gold medals and five silver medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[104]
• Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.^[105]
• Herbert L. Ley, Jr., 77, American physician and head of the U.S. F.D.A., cardiovascular disease.
• Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian, urinary tract infection.^[106]
• Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, 80, Indian theologian.^[107]

23

• Douglas Boyle, 77, Canadian navy officer.
• André Fouché, 92, French actor.^[108]
• Zhang Pinghua, 93, Chinese politician.
• Eudora Welty, 92, American short story writer and novelist (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter, pneumonia.^[109]

24

• Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist.^[110]
• Georges Dor, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter ("Le Manic"), playwright and theatrical producer.^[111]
• Nathan Isgur, 54, American-Canadian theoretical physicist, multiple myeloma.
• Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor, liver cancer.

25

• Jenner Armour, 68, Dominica politician and barrister.
• Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician, assassinated.^[112]
• Josef Klaus, 90, Austrian politician, chancellor (1964-1970).
• Carmen Portinho, 98, Brazilian civil engineer, urbanist, and feminist.^[113]
• Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 46, member of the House of Saud, heart failure.

26

• Rex T. Barber, 84, American fighter pilot during World War II.^[114]
• Jacques Bens, 70, French writer and poet.^[115]
• Henry Coston, 90, French far-right journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.^[116]
• H. Rex Lee, 91, American government diplomat and governor.
• Rudolf Nussgruber, 83, Austrian film director.
• Giorgi Sanaia, 26, Georgian television journalist, homicide.
• Giuseppe Sensi, 94, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Peter von Zahn, 88, German author, film maker, and journalist.^[117]

27

• Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.^[118]
• Piet Bromberg, 84, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[119]
• Harold Land, 72, American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist, stroke.^[120]
• Rhonda Sing, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.^[121]
• Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).^[122]

28

• Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.^[123]
• Joan Finney, 76, American politician and 42nd governor of Kansas (1991–1995), liver cancer.^[124]
• Eldon Grier, 84, Canadian poet and artist.
• Siddiq Khan Kanju, 100, Pakistani politician.
• Baby LeRoy, 69, American child actor.
• Ahmed Sofa, 58, Bangladeshi writer, novelist, and poet, cardiac arrest.
• Martin Stern, Jr., 84, American architect.^[125]
• Fūtarō Yamada, 79, Japanese author.^[126]

29

• Edward Gierek, 88, Polish communist politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1970-1980), lung cancer.^[127]
• Wau Holland, 49, German computer hacker, stroke.^[128]
• Tommy Millar, 62, Scottish football player.^[129]
• Alex Nicol, 85, American actor (South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits).^[130]
• Edward Roberts, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• Elizabeth Yates, 95, American children's author.^[131]

30

• Dennis Coralluzzo, 48, American professional wrestling promoter, brain hemorrhage.
• Ekkehard Gries, 64, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Joseph-Philippe Guay, 85, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).^[132]
• Bill Schelter, 54, American professor of mathematics and developer of Lisp, heart attack.
• Anton Schwarzkopf, 77, German roller coaster manufacturer, Parkinson's disease.
• Petar B. Vasilev, 83, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
• John Walters, 62, British radio producer, presenter and musician, heart attack.^[133]
• Irina Zaritskaya, 62, Ukrainian pianist.^[134]

31

• Poul Anderson, 74, American science fiction author (seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards), cancer.^[135]
• Bill Borthwick, 76, Australian politician.
• Pelageya Danilova, 83, Russian artistic gymnast and Olympian.^[136]
• Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, 91, British historian.^[137]
• Philip Gaskell, 75, British bibliographer and librarian.^[138]
• Francisco da Costa Gomes, 87, Portuguese military officer and politician, president (1974-1976).^[139]
• Satur Grech, 87, Spanish football player and manager.^[140]
• Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 91, German heir and Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
• Joris Tjebbes, 71, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.^[141]
• Miklós Vásárhelyi, 83, Hungarian journalist and politician, member of the National Assembly (1990–1994).^[142]